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Factors that Affect Fuel Consumption and Harvesting Cost 

Kenney, Jonathan (2015-05-13)
Fuel consumption in logging is an important component of harvesting costs. There has been an increased interest in the carbon budget associated with timber harvesting as well as an industrial need for updated fuel consumption ...

Factors that correlate with Employment for People who are Blind in Alabama 

Jones, John (2008-08-15)
This non-experimental retrospective study examined case records from the state of Alabama’s vocational rehabilitation agencies competitive closure rates for blind consumers to determine relationships and to identify the ...

Factors that Successful and Unsuccessful Community College Students Perceive as Fostering and Hindering their Success in Online Learning 

Wise, Amy (2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of community college students at a rural community college in Southeast Alabama, to identify the barriers they faced in being successful, and the strategies they ...

Factorwise Rigidity Involving Hereditarily Indecomposable Spaces 

Gammon, Kevin (2008-12-15)
The Cartesian product of two spaces is called factorwise rigid if any self homeomorphism is a product homeomorphism. In 1983, D. Bellamy and J. Lysko proved that the Cartesian product of two pseudo-arcs is factorwise rigid. ...

Factory Children: Child Industrial Labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1914 

Gorshkov, Boris (2006-12-15)
Children comprised an extremely significant segment of the industrial labor force in Russia in Imperial Russia. In the mid-nineteenth century the average number of children aged sixteen and under employed in industry ...

Faculty Attitude towards Integrating Technology in Teaching 

Palmore, Donna (2011-11-14)
Studies have shown that computer technology has brought about a noticeable change in the manner in which education is delivered to students. Further research suggests that the use of technology enables educators to ...

Faculty Comfort Level in Responding to Students Exhibiting Problems of Professional Multicultural Competence 

Crawford, Claudia (2017-06-28)
The significance of diversity and multicultural issues is becoming more apparent with the increase in visibility of social and political events domestically and abroad. These cultural influences have a direct impact on ...

Faculty Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Cross-Campus Comparison of Three Institutions in the Southeast 

Williams, Emily (2017-07-21)
This study was to determine the frequency and types of academic dishonesty that were occurring at three public institutions as perceived by the faculty. Additionally, this study examined the faculty attitudes and perceptions ...

Fagidaboudit: The American Dream and Italian-American Gangster Movies 

Lamberti, Justin (2005-08-15)
This thesis answers the question, how have both aspects of the American Dream myth been presented in the gangster films and how has the American Dream in gangster films changed in recent years? As Italians immigrated to ...

Failure Evasion: Statistically Solving the NP Complete Problem of Testing Difficult-to-Detect Faults 

Venkatasubramanian, Muralidharan (2016-12-08)
A circuit with n primary inputs (PIs) has N = 2n possible input vectors. A test vector to correctly detect a fault in that circuit must be among those 2n n-bit combinations. Clearly, this problem can be rephrased as a ...

Failure Mode Classification for Life Prediction Modeling of Solid-State Lighting 

Sakalaukus, Peter (2015-07-24)
Since the passing of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the U.S. government has mandated greater energy independence which has acted as a catalyst for accelerating and facilitating research efforts toward ...

Failure Mode Classification for Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronic-Systems under Mechanical Shock 

Gupta, Prashant (2012-01-30)
Electronics have become an integral part of most systems and subsystems used in various fields such as avionics, defense, space exploration, manufacturing, household appliances, health care (implantable biological devices ...

Failure Modes Analysis and Life Prediction Modeling of Phosphor Converted White Lighting Emitting Diode under Harsh Environment 

Zhang, Hao (2017-06-21)
The development of light-emitting diode (LED) technology has resulted in widespread solid state lighting use in both consumer and industrial applications due to their high-energy efficiency, long expected life, and less ...

Fair Factorizations of the Complete Multipartite Graphs and Related Edge-colorings 

Erzurumluoglu, Aras (2015-05-12)
In this dissertation, first the technique of vertex amalgamations is used to extend known results on graph decompositions, and in particular on decompositions of the complete multipartite graph K(n,p) with p parts, each ...

Fake News Detection with Quantum Machine Learning 

Tian, Ziyan (2023-12-07)  ETD File Embargoed
Social media has become a popular platform as a source of news or information in mod- ern life as a result of its timeliness and convenience, but it raises several critical issues. The leading issue is the spread of fake ...

Family Conflict Typology, Maternal Engagement, and Early Childhood Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis 

Bailey, Alyssa N. (2021-12-10)  ETD File Embargoed
Family conflict is a broad construct which can encompass violent and non-violent types of conflict. Problematic child outcomes have been associated with exposure to violent and nonviolent forms of inter-parental conflict, ...

Family Forest Landowner Behavior in the Southeast 

Majumdar, Indrajit (2006-12-15)
Forests and forestry have played a significant role in the economic development and psyche of the South. Forests, which pre-settlement occupied nearly all of the land area of the South, now occupy only 55 percent. More ...

Family Forest Landowner Research: Attitudes About Forest Management and Information Needs 

Kaetzel, Brandon (2011-11-15)
This dissertation provides three manuscripts further assessing family forest landowners based on results from the National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) and Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) unit of the United States Department ...

Family Functioning and Children's Sleep Schedule, Quality and Quantity 

Martin, Karen (2007-08-15)
Although sleep problems are prevalent in U.S. children, very little is known about family variables associated with children’s sleep disruptions. The objective of this study is to examine children’s sleep quality and ...

Family Influences on Risky Sexual Behaviors, Pregnancy, and Abortion Decisions in Swiss Adolescents 

Browder, Sara (2008-08-15)
Teenage pregnancy remains a social problem. In 1997, almost 15 million adolescents gave birth (Whan, Nissen & Ahlberg, 2005). Although Switzerland has a relatively low teenage pregnancy rate (5.2 births per 1,000 youth ...